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Originally posted by baburak
reply to post by Creep Thumper
i'm just saying that the laws of physics stay the same. Shock waves from the blast can't be eliptical no matter what the trajectory of the object was
Originally posted by Soloprotocol
Here's a thought does NASA or China even, have the technology to capture a 1 km wide asteroid and use it as a weapon against another nation....say, like strap some super rockets to it, fly it around the moon using the Moons Gravity to hurl it back a super speed towards...say Iran...
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by Creep Thumper
Why should it be elliptical?
By the time the pieces of a meteor this size hit the ground they are falling vertically.
Originally posted by Creep Thumper
Originally posted by baburak
reply to post by Creep Thumper
i'm just saying that the laws of physics stay the same. Shock waves from the blast can't be eliptical no matter what the trajectory of the object was
The hole in the ice should have been elliptical. That thing looks like they cut it with a chainsaw.
As to the sound, I'm still confused.
Wow thats quite strange, blowing up 9 times.
Originally posted by Bicent76
reply to post by Phage
That just makes the story even more strange.....
So the meteor we were really suppose to be watching hit us, and we did not know it was coming...
That is why I think its so hard for me to listen to all these people explain things to me about asteroids, the universe, etc. Science, and then this asteroid slams into Russia today...
Now everyone is saying its not related because trajectory this trajectory that, etc, and I can believe that, then lets just say this...
We did not see this meteor coming, and in my opinion its very coincidental and ironic it happens hours before 2012 DA-14.
I know something like this happened back in what was it IRELAND? or Greenland I don't recall last year, but nothing quite like this here in RUSSIA..
Its just a weird story, maybe its getting more traction due to the DA-14 event...
I guess its normal for big Meteors to be slamming into the atmosphere making contrails and explosions...
Originally posted by Ophiuchus 13
Like watching local planet activities to assess potentials here.
The regional Emergency Ministry denied previous unconfirmed reports by local media that the meteorite was shot by the military air defenses.
The local newspaper Znak reported the meteorite was intercepted by an air defense unit at the Urzhumka settlement near Chelyabinsk. Quoting a source in the military, it wrote a missile salvo blew the meteorite to pieces at an altitude of 20 kilometers.
Regnum news agency quoted a military source who claimed that the vapor condensation trail of the meteorite speaks to the fact that the meteorite was intercepted by air defenses.
No. Sonic booms are not produced by "trans-sonic" events. They are produced by an object traveling faster than the speed of sound. The "boom" is the shockwave, which travels with the object.
Each "Trans-sonic" event produces a report.
Originally posted by citizenoftheworld
Originally posted by Creep Thumper
Originally posted by baburak
reply to post by Creep Thumper
i'm just saying that the laws of physics stay the same. Shock waves from the blast can't be eliptical no matter what the trajectory of the object was
The hole in the ice should have been elliptical. That thing looks like they cut it with a chainsaw.
Yes that is exactly what they did. The moment it happened they got a call from the Russian government to make a hole as a cover upedit on 15-2-2013 by citizenoftheworld because: (no reason given)